Vocabulary 1
This is a rock which metal can be obtained.
What is ore?
This group of people built the transcontinental railroad
Who are immigrants? (Irish, Chinese, etc)
This measures the number of people or population.
What is a census?
On the long cattle drives, cowboys were most worried about the danger of these.
This means to eat grass, crops, and other plants in a field.
What is graze?
What is transcontinental?
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are all forms of this.
What is precipitation?
This was known as "Seward's Folly?"
What was the purchase of a Alaska?
Ranchers drove their cattle from Texas to Abilene, Kansas because of this.
There was access to the railroad where cattle could be shipped to Chicago and then the east.
This is to declare ownership of something, especially of land.
This term means to gather or move together in a large group.
What is swarm?
This swarm was the worst disaster faced by farmers on the great plains.
What was grasshoppers?
Name two well-known outlaws of the wild west.
Who were Jesse James and Billy the Kid?
This group was most likely to become rich on the mining frontier.
This means to mark with a symbol of ownership.
What is brand?
This is a system of buying now and paying later.
What is credit?
This was the MAIN reason that sod houses were built by settlers on the plains.
There were few trees with with to build wooden houses.
Name one reason people started settling on the Great Plains.
A temporary increase in rainfall.
Free land offered by the Homestead Act.
Cheap land offered by the railroads.
The harsh "Vigilante justice", also known as frontier justice, of the mining camps developed because there were none of these people.
Who were police?
This is land where cattle roam freely.
What is open range?
This means a home and the land surrounding it.
What is a homestead?
Who said "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country?
Horace Greeley.
Under this act, free land was given away to U.S. citizens and immigrants.
What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
Ranchers moved north and were closer to railroads.
Farmers moved in and took up much of the land.
Two fierce winters and a hot dry summer led ranchers to pen in their cattle.
What is a treaty?